Viktoria Kravets has set aside textbooks and is now one of the thousands of volunteers helping her country.
This piece originally appeared on the United Nations Population Fund's website. It is republished here with permission.On 24 February, 11th-grader Viktoria Kravets had a typical day planned: classes at top secondary school Gymnasium Prestige then meeting up with a friend after school. The night before, she had forgotten to set her alarm clock and woke up earlier than usual. “I immediately saw a dozen notifications and thought that I was still asleep,” said Kravets, 17. “At 5 a.m.
As the war grinds into its second month, more than 10 million people from Ukraine have either fled to other countries or are displaced internally, including some 200,000 in this western city of some 721,000 andShe has set aside textbooks for now as a volunteer registering refugees with Tvory Volunteering Centre, which works with Molodvizh, a peer-to-peer youth organization and UNFPA partner. “I am one of thousands of volunteers who are now helping our country,” she said.
“It has been a little nerve-wracking and stressful. And also very unpredictable,” she said. “I wake up, have breakfast and go volunteering. I come across different people, different stories, creating a new unique history of our country. I never thought I would be involved in this kind of activity – helping hundreds of people a day looking for transport to the
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